Bonnet



UNITED STATS PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL H. LYON AND WM. DOUBLEDAY, OF BROOKLYN', NFV YORK.

BONNET.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,724, dated March 19, 1861.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL H. LYoN and IVILLIAM E. DOUBLEDAY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Bonnets or Hats; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of our said invention.

Frames of buckram, bonnets of straw and willow have been pressed out of one piece of material between dies, and woolen cloth has been pressed up into the form of a hat7 but a want has been experienced by the community of a light cheap durable and handsome bonnet blooiner or hat adapted to ladies use especially in summer when woolen, straw willow, or similar bonnets are too heavy and warm.

To meetthis demand we have devised the present invention.

IVe have discovered that the article known as pique 01 marseilles, that is formed of cotton, woven into various figures, when laid upon buckram, and the twocaused to adhere by paste or by the sizing of the buckram and pressed into shape, outof one piece between dies, will form a neat light, handsome durable and cheap bonnet or hat adapted to ladies wear; to produce the said bonnet bloomer or hat, we pursue the proc I ess before indicated5we cause the Hat sheets of pique and buckram or similar stiffening to adhere to each other and we prefer that they be dried, and afterward sufliciently dampened for pressing into form between heated dies of the desired shape, or the flat sheets may be pressed into shape before they become quite dry. 1We thus produce a new and useful article of manufacture In the accompanying drawings we have represented a bonnet (Figure l) and a bloo1ner(Fig. 2). In these the interiora, is the aforesaid stiffening, and is the pique or marseilles exterior, the two adhering as before set forth. V

IVhat we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new article of manufacture isknown as pique or marseilles upon buckram or stiffening material and pressed into form between heated dies as set forth.

In witness whereof we have i hereunto set our signatures this third day of October' 1860.

S. H. LYON. WVM. E. DOUBLEDAY.

IVitnesses LEMUEL YV. SERRELL, CHAS. H. SMITH.

The bonnet or hat formed of cotton clothA 

